Menon, Vengalil Krishnan Krishna

(Citations shortened in view of Lord Beaverbrook's health.)

My Lord Chancellor,
It is my prerogative, unhappy only that its compass must be brief, to present to you five men who severally are
linked to yourself by ties of Art, Authorship, Industry, Endowment and Statecraft, and universally by the greater tie
of Friendship, that it may please you and this University body to admit them to Honorary Degrees in this University
and bind them thereby to us as corporate
Members and beloved Alumni.

CONVOCATION, OCTOBER, 1961
VENGALIL KRISHNAN KRISHNA MENON
to be Doctor of Laws

Minister of Defence for India and leader of the Indian delegation to the United Nations, a world statesman a
measure of whose gifts and sincerity is sure to be revealed in the address he is about to give you, his highly
privileged audience, this afternoon.

From:
Cattley, Robert E.D. Honoris causa: the effervescences of a university orator. Fredericton: UNB Associated Alumnae, 1968.